Anybody remember QUIBI?

Around 2020. Was meant to be a streaming app, gimmick being they were tv shows explicitly made to watch on your phone (or iPad I guess). Sometimes with the image format specifically to play into this, and for most of its programming the episodes were noticeably shorter than a regular show because people don’t want to watch a video for 30-60 minutes on a phone. It failed immediately and never took off

In the short time they existed, they actually made quite a few shows from what I remember. Most made before they ever launched. Some never ended up getting released because it collapsed so quickly

Has anybody seen any? Were any good?

I recently noticed some of them popping up on Netflix, Amazon prime, Apple TV etc. so I guess they’ve recuperated some losses from the business failing by selling the shows onwards.

Anybody watched these? Do they look like normal shows or is it a weird vertical thing with black bars on the sides?

It almost feels like it’s from another universe. There’s so many shows with pretty big name actors in them, and because of the format being designed for watching it on your phone a lot of the shows episodes are like 15 minutes long. Plus the fact the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quibi_original_programming